EP0390545B1 - Multi-unit package particularly for parallelepiped cartons - Google Patents

Multi-unit package particularly for parallelepiped cartons Download PDF

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EP0390545B1
EP0390545B1 EP90303339A EP90303339A EP0390545B1 EP 0390545 B1 EP0390545 B1 EP 0390545B1 EP 90303339 A EP90303339 A EP 90303339A EP 90303339 A EP90303339 A EP 90303339A EP 0390545 B1 EP0390545 B1 EP 0390545B1
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sleeve
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Alain Saulas
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/32—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper having bodies formed by folding and interconnecting two or more blanks each blank forming a body part, whereby each body part comprises at least one outside face of the box, carton or tray
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
    • B65D71/12—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers the packaging elements, e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank
    • B65D71/36—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers the packaging elements, e.g. wrappers being formed by folding a single blank having a tubular shape, e.g. tubular wrappers, with end walls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2301/00—Details of blanks
    • B65D2301/10—Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
    • B65D2571/00129—Wrapper locking means
    • B65D2571/00135—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper
    • B65D2571/00141—Wrapper locking means integral with the wrapper glued
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
    • B65D2571/00648—Elements used to form the wrapper
    • B65D2571/00654—Blanks
    • B65D2571/0066—Blanks formed from one single sheet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
    • B65D2571/00709—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element
    • B65D2571/00722—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element tubular with end walls, e.g. walls not extending on the whole end surface
    • B65D2571/00728—Shape of the formed wrapper, i.e. shape of each formed element if the wrapper is made from more than one element tubular with end walls, e.g. walls not extending on the whole end surface the end walls being closed by gluing
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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    • Y10S229/933—Mating container blanks
    • Y10S229/935—No waste, i.e. edge-to-edge blanks

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  • This invention relates to a multi-unit package which is particularly suitable for parallelepiped cartons sometimes referred to as 'brik' cartons.
  • brik cartons are normally formed from a composite paperboard or like material having an inner fluid resistant lining and more usually containing a foodstuff or beverage such as fruit juice, milk or soups.
  • Such brik cartons have walls which are relatively "soft” i.e. exhibit some give when pressure is applied to them but which recover to their previous disposition when the applied pressure is relieved.
  • the present invention is concerned with a retaining wrapper which holds together in a group a number of such brik cartons to provide a "carry home" package.
  • the wrapper is designed to enhance the resistance to vertical loading of the package so that it is stronger when stacked during palletization.
  • the wrapper is designed to provide a carrying handle and to give panel space on which advertising material can be presented.
  • US-A-2 795 365 discloses a package according to the preamble of claim 1 and a carton blank which can be cut from a sheet material to provide minimal wastage of material.
  • the nested carton blanks comprise a narrow end panel sections and wider side sections comprising side panel and top and bottom panel flaps.
  • the wider side sections of one blank are disposed adjacent the narrow end panel section of a neighbouring blank in the cut sheet.
  • US-A-2 795 365 also discloses a slot handle formed by two top panel flaps in the formed carton.
  • One aspect of the invention provides a package which accommodates a plurality of parallelepiped cartons and comprises a sleeve including a top wall panel and a bottom wall panel interconnected by spaced side wall panels thereby forming a tubular structure in which said parallelepiped cartons are accommodated, said tubular structure including end wall panels which at least partially close the ends of the tubular structure wherein corners of the sleeve each formed by a side wall panel and an adjacent end wall panel extend substantially the full height of the package and wherein upper and lower edges of each side wall panel adjacent upper and lower portions of said sleeve corners are each formed with a recess, said recesses of one sleeve being sized and positioned to receive said upper and lower corner portions of a like adjacent sleeve so that the adjacent sleeves can be nested when in flat form.
  • said recesses and said corner portions may be complementary.
  • said top wall panel and said bottom wall panel may comprise strips of material extending between said side wall panels said strips being shaped so that a pair of cooperating end closure panels of one sleeve can be nested with the top and bottom wall panels of a like adjacent sleeve when in flat form.
  • said top and bottom wall panels are of waisted form.
  • the top and bottom panels may each have a width less than the width of the side wall panels and wherein a pair of cooperating end wall panels of one sleeve may be nested with respective ones of the top and bottom wall panels of a like adjacent sleeve when those sleeves are in flat form.
  • Another aspect of the present invention provides a pair of nested carton blanks each of said blanks being adopted to form a package for accommodating a plurality of parallelepiped cartons, and comprising: a top wall panel; a bottom wall panel; a pair of spaced side wall panels interconnecting said top wall panel and said bottom wall panel to form a tubular structure in which said parallelepiped cartons may be accommodated, each of said side wall panels having upper, lower and end edges; and end wall panels connected to each of said end edges to at least partially close the ends of said tubular structure; said tubular structure having corners formed by one of said side wall panels and an adjacent one of said end wall panels, said corners defining upper and lower corner portions and extending a full height of the cartons to be accommodated therein; each of said upper and lower edges of each of said side wall panels defining a recess into said side wall panel adjacent each of said corners; said recesses each being sized and positioned to correspond to said upper and lower corner portions, whereby said recesses of one of said blank
  • the elongate blank 10 shown on the left side of Figure 2 is formed from paperboard or like foldable sheet material and is shown in flat nested relationship with respect to a similar blank 10a.
  • Like reference numerals in relation to blank 10a designate like parts of blank 10 with the addition of suffix "a".
  • Wrapper blank 10 comprises a first side wall panel 12, a top wall panel 14, a second side wall panel 16 and a bottom wall panel 18 hinged one to the next along transverse fold lines 20, 22 and 24 respectively.
  • side wall panel 12 At each of the opposite transverse ends of side wall panel 12 is hinged an end wall panel 26 and 28 about longitudinal fold lines 30 and 32 respectively.
  • side wall panel 16 carries at each of its opposite transverse ends, end panels 34 and 36 hinged to side wall panel 16 about fold lines 38 and 40 respectively.
  • top and bottom wall panels take the form of a "waisted" strip of material. This facilitates nesting of the blanks as described below and in the case of the top wall panel the "strip" provides a convenient handle by which the package can be carried.
  • Bottom wall panel 18 has a securing flap 42 hinged thereto along transverse fold line 44. When the wrapper is applied to a group of brik cartons and formed into a sleeve, the securing flap 42 is glued or otherwise secured to the free (lower) transverse marginal edge of side wall panel 12.
  • the completed package is shown in Figure 1 where a group of six carton briks are maintained in a unit by a wrapper blank of the type described. The ends of the tubular structure formed by the wrapper are closed partially by cooperating end closure panels 26, 34 and 28, 36 respectively, each cooperating pair being secured in overlapping relationship.
  • top wall (handle) panel 14 and the bottom wall panel are of waisted configuration thereby to be nestable with respect to the end wall panels of adjacent blanks which are of complementary form.
  • end wall panels 26a and 34a are each shown engaged in a respective complementary recess 14', 18' which are defined by end edges of panels 14, 18 respectively by virtue of their shape.
  • the wrapper is co-extensive with the cartons so that dimension 'd' of the wrapper carton is substantially equivalent to the height of the adjacent packaged carton 'B1'.
  • the stacking strength of the package is enhanced because the vertical compressability of the package as a whole is improved so that crushing of the brik cartons is resisted.
  • each side wall at its upper and lower edges is formed with a recessed portion adjacent each corner of the wrapper.
  • the upper and lower corner parts C1, C2 of the package formed from blank 10, adjacent carton B1 nest into complementary recesses R1 and R2 formed in side walls 16a and 12a, respectively of blank 10a when the blanks are struck from the paperboard web.
  • upper corner portion C1 of blank 10a is nested into recess R1 of the blank 10
  • lower corner portion C2 of blank 10 is nested into recess R2 of blank 10a whereby the upper and lower portions C1, C2 of nested blank lay adjacent one another.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Cartons (AREA)
  • Packages (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Stackable Containers (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
EP90303339A 1989-03-30 1990-03-29 Multi-unit package particularly for parallelepiped cartons Expired - Lifetime EP0390545B1 (en)

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GB898907185A GB8907185D0 (en) 1989-03-30 1989-03-30 Multi-unit package particularly for parallelapiped cartons
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EP (1) EP0390545B1 (ja)
JP (1) JP2868096B2 (ja)
KR (1) KR0166063B1 (ja)
AT (1) ATE95787T1 (ja)
AU (1) AU622844B2 (ja)
BR (1) BR9001465A (ja)
CA (1) CA2013398C (ja)
DE (1) DE69003852T2 (ja)
DK (1) DK0390545T3 (ja)
ES (1) ES2045797T3 (ja)
GB (1) GB8907185D0 (ja)
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AU5201990A (en) 1990-10-04
DE69003852D1 (de) 1993-11-18
KR900014215A (ko) 1990-10-23
DK0390545T3 (da) 1993-11-15
MX172770B (es) 1994-01-12
DE69003852T2 (de) 1994-02-10
ATE95787T1 (de) 1993-10-15
GB8907185D0 (en) 1989-05-10
BR9001465A (pt) 1991-04-16
AU622844B2 (en) 1992-04-16
JP2868096B2 (ja) 1999-03-10
ES2045797T3 (es) 1994-01-16
CA2013398A1 (en) 1990-09-30
JPH02282039A (ja) 1990-11-19
EP0390545A1 (en) 1990-10-03
NZ232879A (en) 1991-11-26
US5004104A (en) 1991-04-02

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